AUTOMATIC HEADING CONTROL SYSTEM FOR TILTROTOR AIRCRAFT AND HELICOPTERS

Patent №

US 7,617,024

Granted

2009-11-10

Filed 2006

Owner

BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON INC.

+2 more

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11524888

One embodiment of the present invention is a method for automatically reducing the effect of a component of an external force that is laterally incident on a rotorcraft. A signal of the rotorcraft indicative of and proportional to the component is monitored. An absolute value of the signal and a preset high limit are compared. If the absolute value is greater than the preset high limit, manual heading control of the rotorcraft is disabled and the heading of the rotorcraft is adjusted with respect to the external force so as to decrease the lateral component of the external force experienced by the rotorcraft.

AI classification

Planning1.00
Vision0.02
Natural language0.00
AI hardware0.00
Machine learning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON INC.

assignment · 183260317

BELL HELICOPTER RHODE ISLAND INC.

assignment · 289280389

TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC.

assignment · 289280521

Assignors

BUILTA, KENNETH E.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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